Saturday, November 5, 2011

Atlas Title Pages

titlepage with ornate monument and classical figures
Title: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Creator: Abraham Ortelius
Published in Antwerp, 1650




painted Spanish atlas titlepage with classical statue strewn pseudo-fireplace mantle design

Title: Atlas Nuevo contiene Todas las Partes del Mundo, adonde Sono exactamente fefialados los Imperios, Monarchias, Reynos Estados, Republicas, y los Pueblos que al presente se conocen
Creator: Sanson
Publisher: Georgio Gallet, Amsterdam, 1699




nautical-themed, triple-vertical-divided atlas title page
Title: Atlas containing ye Best Maps of the severall parts of the World collected by Phil: Lea who selleth all sorts of Mathematicall Books and Instruments
Creator/Publisher: Phillip Lea, 1580 ~1690




painted atlas titlepage with cosmos and earth and classical gods and figures shown
Title: Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia, Regna et Status exactis Tebulis Geographice demonstrans, Opera Johannis Baptistae Homanni
Creator: Johann Homann
Publisher: M.P.?, Nuremburg (undated but late 17th/early 18th c.)





titlepage with astrological, colonial and royal motifs
Title: Ioannis Ianssonii Novus atlas, sive Theatrum orbis terrarum : in quo tabulae & descriptiones omnium regionum totius universi accuratissime exhibentur. In quinque tomos distinctus
Creator: Jan Jansson
Publisher: D. V. Bremden, Amsterdam, ~1649




titlepage of atlas with colonial, royal and nautical motifs
Title: Cinqui�me Partie du grand Atlas, contenant une parfaite description du monde maritime, ou hydrographie g�n�rale de tout la terre, enrichie des particularities de la Navigation tant Ancienne que Moderne, avec un excellent et curieux tableau du monde des Anciens
Creator: Jan Jansson
Publisher: D.V. Bremden, Amsterdam, 1657




Incomplete hand-painted titlepage (Blaeu): military figures in monument alcoves and coat of arms above
Untitled/incomplete title page
Creator: Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1645




title page: ornate funereal-like monument adorned with classical figures
Title: Livre Troisieme des Villes Principales du Monde
Undated and anonymous (according to the source site) but possibly by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenburg from the late 16th c.




astronomy/colonial/discovery-themed atlas titlepage
Title: Nouveau Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas (Tome Second)
Creator/Publisher: Iohannem Iansonium (Jan Jansson), Amsterdam (undated but mid-1600s)




painted architectural monument featuring classical statue designs
Title: Atlas Gerardi Mercatoris et Ivsti Hondii Cosmographorum mortem dolens
Creator: Gerhard Mercator
Published by Jodocus Hondius, Amsterdam, 1633



The Artz Atlas Title Pages are among the Oberlin College Digital Collections - [FB Artz bio].

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